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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIE CHARLES A. BOYNTOLT, OF HYDE PARK, VERMONT.

BUTTER-WORKER.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 29,135, dated July 17, 18-60.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, C. A. BOYNTON, of Hyde Park, in the county ofLamoille and State of Vermont, have invented a new and useful h lachinefor Packing Butter into Buckets or Tubs; and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of thisspecification, in which the figure is a perspective view of the machine,showing the several parts forming the same and their relativearrangement.

This invention has for its object the pressing and packing of butterinto tubs pails or buckets, or any vessel it may be found desirable toput it in, by suitable machinery whereby the butter may be pressed intoa very solid and compact state with great facility and with littleexpenditure of labor.

To these ends my invention consists in the combination of an adjustableclamp for holding the pails with a horizontal disk spur wheel and apinion level spur wheel and crank for giving to the tub, or disk wheel,a rotary motion, and in arranging over this disk wheel in a suitablemanner, as will be hereinafter described, a conical pressing or packingroller that is made to act upon the top of the but-ter when put into thetub, by a hand lever so as to forcibly pack the butter down in the tub,and if necessary print or stamp the surface of the butter in the tub atone and the same operation of pressmg.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand my invention .Iwill proceed to describe its construction and operation.

In the drawings A represents a base that is supported on four legs andmade circular for appearance merely, in the center of which is set theshaft of a horizontal faced spur wheel, or disk 13, that is capable ofrotating freely on the base A. This disk, B, is swelled up in its centerand diametrically through this swelled portion passes a clamping andholding plate D that is attracted to the disk by a dove-tail slot sothat this plate, D, is capable of moving about horizontally but notperpendicularly on the disk. Suitable provision is made in this plate Dfor clamping the tub C to it as shown in the drawings.

The horizontal wheel carrying the tub is rotated by a bevel pinion wheelE the teeth of which engages with those on this disk. The pinion E isturned with the hand crank F the shaft of which has its bearings in theupright post G.

G, G G are three uprights that are framed into the base A and connectedtogether by a semi-circular brace II. The posts G, G serve to hold thetransverse vibrating bar J, which is tenoned into the post G, andpivoted at this end, and at the other end it is only tenoned into a deepmortise into the post G so that it may have a slight end play and avibrating movement. This bar J carries under it a conical roller K thatis hung from the bracket arms 0 0 so as to rotate easily. The bar J isoperated by a hand lever L, that is pivoted to post G and also pivotedto the bar J. This comprises the several parts forming my im provedbutter packing machine the operation of which I will describe asfollows: The tub into which the butter is to be packed is clamped to thedisk wheel K by the movable clamping plate I). The butter is now putinto the tub loosely and the tub set in motion. lVhile the tub isrotated, by turning the crank F with one hand, with the other hand andby means of the lever L, the conical pressing roller K is made to act.upon the butter in the tub and press it down firmly and uniformly in thetub. To imprint the surface of the butter when the tub is filled it isonly necessary that the conical roller have on its surface the desiredprint.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is Attaching a tub, to receive the butter, to arotary disk 13 in combination with the conical pressing roller Karranged and operated substantially as described and to obtain thewithin described results.

CHAS. A. BOYNTON.

Witnesses B. GIRoUXn, M. M. Lrvmesron.

O. H. WOODWORTH.

Watch.

Patented July 17, 1860.

